Jeremiah Chapter 37

• Jeremiah 37:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 37:2
  Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
• Jeremiah 37:3
  But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to the LORD’s words, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 37:4
  Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “Pray now to the L...
• Jeremiah 37:5
  Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people, for they had not put him into prison.
• Jeremiah 37:6
  Pharaoh’s army had come out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.
• Jeremiah 37:7
  Then the LORD’s word came to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
• Jeremiah 37:8
  “The LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come ou...
• Jeremiah 37:9
  The Chaldeans will come again, and fight against this city. They will take it and burn it with fire.”’
• Jeremiah 37:10
  “The LORD says, ‘Don’t deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely depart from us;” for they will not depart.
• Jeremiah 37:11
  For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and only wounded men remained among them, they would each rise up in ...
• Jeremiah 37:12
  When the army of the Chaldeans had withdrawn from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,
• Jeremiah 37:13
  then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the middle of the people.
• Jeremiah 37:14
  When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jere...
• Jeremiah 37:15
  Then Jeremiah said, “That is false! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans.” But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah seized Jeremiah, and brought him to t...
• Jeremiah 37:16
  The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
• Jeremiah 37:17
  When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,
• Jeremiah 37:18
  then Zedekiah the king sent and had him brought out. The king asked him secretly in his house, “Is there any word from the LORD?” Jeremiah said, “Ther...
• Jeremiah 37:19
  Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison...
• Jeremiah 37:20
  Now where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you, nor against this land’?
• Jeremiah 37:21
  Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the sc...
• Jeremiah 37:22
  Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ stre...